This is a really lovely 10-acre park in downtown Portsmouth with beautiful flower gardens, walkways, grass areas, and it's right on the Piscataqua River with docking. It's a worthy time out where you can walk the paths, smell the flowers and sit with a good book. Prescott Park is also home to … [Read more...]
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Greeley Park (Nashua)
A big, very nice 125-acre park with lots of trees and plantings on the north end of Nashua with trails, an excellent playground, wading pool, gazebo, park benches, tennis courts, softball field, horse shoes, picnic tables and bbq pits, skateboard area, sledding area. And restrooms. Often a hot dog … [Read more...]
Lowell-Dracut-Tyngsboro State Forest (near Nashua)
At the junction where three Mass. towns meet, just over the NH/Mass. state line, this pocket of forest land spans about 1100 acres of walking/hiking paths, granite outcroppings, ponds and wetlands. It was likely the site of a Native American village before colonial settlement. There are 6 miles of … [Read more...]
Lake Massabesic (Manchester)
A leaf peeper's delight during Fall Foliage but for other times, this is a great place to stroll, bike ride, jog, swim and bring a picnic spread. Wildlife you may see include deer, raccoon, fox and for birders, loons, hawks and many other species who are attracted by the watershed. Game fish … [Read more...]
Windham Rail Trail (Windham)
This is a GREAT place for a 4.1-mile scenic walk that's friendly to strollers, bicycles, wheelchairs, skateboards, dogs on leashes... even horses, just nothing motorized (yay!) Beautifully newly-paved and flat, it's part of the original Boston-Maine Railroad. It takes you through woods, granite … [Read more...]